Also, I don't think that's the animal you are seeing...it looks like it was filled with clay.  You can even see the fingerprints in it.   It probably contains some sweet sentiment, sealed in the shell!



Linda R. Zylman

FL License # LA890



Innocenti & Webel

9350 SE Olympus Street

Hobe Sound, FL  33455

Phone: 772-546-9650



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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 11:54 AM

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Subject: [CONCH-L] Mystery naticid (?) from Saguenay Fjord, Quebec



Three weeks ago, a friend of a friend took some pictures of a live gastropod while diving in the Saguenay Fjord, off the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.  It was supposedly large (he estimated 3-4") and digging in the sand/muck bottom, but it doesn't look anything like a Euspira to me.  It looks a bit glossy in the pictures and is shaped more like an Umbonium (Trochidae).  No operculum is evident in the photos and the animal is blocking the view of the umbilicus (if there is one).  The interior may even be pearly.



Please take a look at the four photos at http://www.bostonmalclub.org/images/id and let me know what you think it is!



The Saguenay Fjord is an interesting region with a deep layer of dirty river water on top of (and blocking out all the light from) crystal clear, ice cold seawater.  He writes "This region often has animals usually only found in the Arctic, or even sometimes northern Alaska/Japan" so it could be extralimital.



- Dan



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